"Eclipse"

Movie Reviewed Today: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Genre: drama / fantasy

Starring: Kristen Stewart
Robert Pattinson
Taylor Lautner

Director: David Slade

The love triangle between Bella, Edward, and Jacob continues, even though the final decision is quite clear. Over in Seattle, someone (who is obviously Victoria) is creating an army of "newborn" vampires with one purpose - to kill Bella.

As suggested in my "New Moon" review, I really think the Twilight series is underrated by its critics but overrated by its fans, and this movie sticks to that claim. It's not *great*, but it is far from unwatchable.

The characters aren't nearly as annoying in this as they were in the previous film. Most of the teen angst is gone except for the love triangle, so no more moping around the house for month after month or anything. I don't know why, but Kristen Stewart looked a lot more like a "real person" than in New Moon. Edward is still an annoying ponce, and Alice & Jacob are still more interesting than the two leads. Not much of a change from New Moon.

One thing I thought was kind of lame was that they completely MADE UP some new vampire "physics" simply for plot convenience.

New vampire physics made up in this movie:

-The "younger" a vampire is (time since being changed = small), the physically stronger they are. Really.....REALLY? Does this mean vampires who are 3000 years old are extremely weak? It really seems like they made up this rule JUST for this one plot point about an army of newborns being dangerous.
-Vampires are all icy on the inside. They never even suggested this in the other two. In this one, when vampires are beheaded, they break apart like ice and all of their interior flesh is hard and clear. Weird.


The action, acting, CG, and plot were better, but I can't shake the feeling that I enjoyed New Moon slightly better....I have no idea why though.

Final Score - 6/10